Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.